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ScienceSeagull posted:That was a real art exhibition, and the book was DeLillo's Point Omega: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Psycho#Aftermath Thank you!
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Hughlander posted:I thought this was in All Systems Red but it wasn’t. Maybe one of the sequels. Doing a reread of Martha Wells still, a scene very much like this was in 'Network Effect' where the captain of the transport wants to negotiate to release the protags after they delivered free repair equipment. But in my head it was on a planet and the reversal involved them needing more help. But tentatively I'm thinking I just misremembered Network Effect.
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Apr 21, 2024 17:23
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Snuffman posted:Too much Helldivers 2 is poisoning my brain but also caused me to dimly recall a sci-fi short story that I'd like to read again: I'm sure I remember this one too but it doesn't seem to be in the James Tiptree or Alastair Reynolds collections which are the only sci-fi short stories I've read in the last couple of years. Does it begin with the main character enlisting, and there's a captured lizard alien/s in a cage nearby?
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Apr 24, 2024 14:58
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I remember it too, I think at the end with the abstraction they kept talking about wars across dimension stacks or potential stacks - wasn't a published story was it, it was an online/Web novel pushed by the author? Nice work freebooter! Just read it again in five minutes, poo poo that's impressively dense. Isolationist fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 24, 2024 15:22
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I've read that and want to say it was an Alastair Reynolds or Peter Watts short story..
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Apr 24, 2024 19:12
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Yep, found it - it's 'Scales' by Alastair Reynolds. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/scales/
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Apr 25, 2024 02:14
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Could really use help sourcing a Shakespeare(?) quote, I recall some old outmatched swordsman about to die for his beliefs saying something like "some battles aren't to win or lose but to say you fought". I can't find anything on it so maybe it's from a different author or I imagined it entirely.
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Apr 25, 2024 07:03
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tomanton posted:Could really use help sourcing a Shakespeare(?) quote, I recall some old outmatched swordsman about to die for his beliefs saying something like "some battles aren't to win or lose but to say you fought". I can't find anything on it so maybe it's from a different author or I imagined it entirely. You could be mis-remembering Grantland Rice: "For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But how you played the Game"
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Apr 25, 2024 08:24
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Hughlander posted:Doing a reread of Martha Wells still, a scene very much like this was in 'Network Effect' where the captain of the transport wants to negotiate to release the protags after they delivered free repair equipment. But in my head it was on a planet and the reversal involved them needing more help. But tentatively I'm thinking I just misremembered Network Effect. It's also ringing a lot of bells for the most recent in the series, System Collapse.
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GotLag posted:It's also ringing a lot of bells for the most recent in the series, System Collapse. Haven't read it yet  But will soon, just started Fugitive Telemetry reread with the kid.
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